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b-next Selects StreamBase: Regulation Goes Real-Time

Today's announcement by StreamBase partner b-next is part of steady shift toward real-time in the capital markets. b-next, a pioneering provider of multi-venue, multi- asset class capital markets surveillance and compliance solutions, announced their selection of StreamBase for their CMC:Suite solution set. By incorporating event processing, b-next's customers, such as regulators, exchanges and banks, will be able to rapidly implement near real-time market abuse surveillance solutions. This will enable relevant market participants to comply with recent ESMA guidelines and future proof themselves against additional regulation expected in the coming years.

Although event processing has often been associated with sub millisecond decision making and algorithmic trading, trading was indeed, just the tip of the iceberg. Pre-trade risk management followed, and now the entire infrastructure of the capital markets applying automation technologies like event processing. b-next’s systems is further evidence of that shift, as the CMC:Suite solution helps reduce compliance officers' response period by helping them immediately identify suspicious trading patterns and generating alerts. All in real-time.

"We're one flash crash away from being required to understand our risk in real-time," the head of electronic trading at a top-tier firm told me recently. His firm has deployed event processing globally to manage their trade flow, risk, and positions. After years of being deployed in the heart of electronic trading systems, recently the technology has been increasingly used to manage the same automated infrastructure its often used to power. 

We welcome our newest partner b-next to the StreamBase family!

About b-next

b-next is a provider of multi-venue, multi-asset class, Capital Markets Surveillance and Compliance software solutions to manage risk, meet regulatory mandates and drive trading efficiencies. The b-next Capital Markets Compliance (CMC) solution offers  a single integrated compliance platform for Market Abuse, Insider Trading, Conflict of Interest, Derivatives/OTC Monitoring, Best Execution, Fraud Detection and Prevention, AML and more. With over 150 customers, b-next has a 20 year history of delivering solutions to market participants, exchanges and capital markets regulators.

Santiago Stock Exchange Selects StreamBase

Too busy to keep up on the news! Last week, the Santiago Stock Exchange (SSE) (Bolsa de Comercio de Santiago) announced a strategic partnership with StreamBase Systems to provide algorithmic trading tools for the Chilean market. StreamBase CEP will be integrated into SSE's electronic trading platform, Telepregon, offering local brokers advanced order execution algorithms.

Time to market and ease of use, again, were the key reasons for the SSE's choice of StreamBase: "We chose StreamBase as a partner for their rapid developer environment StreamBase Studio in addition to their extensive connectivity options," said Andrés Araya Falcone, CIO at the Santiago Stock Exchange. "StreamBase's graphical development environment allows us to easily provide software as a service to local brokers and other market participants for building their own algorithms. The Chilean market is still at an early stage of tremendous growth, and it is critical to us as an exchange to bring in the best technology available to our local market."

Danielle Tierney, Senior Analyst at AITE Group commented, is one of the leading analysts about the capital markets in South America. She was quoted as saying this about the news: "As the region's third largest market after Mexico and Brazil, Chile is an important Latin American market with a history of strong performance based on solid fundamentals. The Santiago Stock Exchange is also making significant progress in the development of its trading infrastructure to facilitate the expansion of investment opportunities. SSE's participation in the MILA initiative and its efforts to support growth in electronic trading are only the beginning of many promising things to come."

Lots more big customer announcements to come in 2012! Stay tuned!